I'll confess to not liking Henry Clay all that much. Despite his efforts at political compromise to keep the Union together, he's always struck me as smarmy, and I've never bought his claim that there wasn't a "corrupt bargain" between him and John Quincy Adams in 1825, whether it was explicitly stated or not. David Heidler and …
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